Janis Zickfeld
A5080979893- Infant Health and Development
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Media Influence and Health
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Conflict Management and Negotiation
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Pediatric health and respiratory diseases
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Aarhus University
2020-2024
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
2024
University of Oslo
2016-2022
Metropolitan University
2022
OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
2022
Heidelberg University
2021
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research
2018-2020
Leiden University
2020
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
2020
University of Mannheim
2018-2020
Concerns about the veracity of psychological research have been growing. Many findings in science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be limited to specific, ungeneralizable settings populations. Crowdsourced research, a type large-scale collaboration which one more projects conducted across multiple lab sites, offers pragmatic solution these other current methodological challenges. The Psychological Science Accelerator...
English-speakers sometimes say that they feel "moved to tears," "emotionally touched," "stirred," or something "warmed their heart;" other languages use similar passive contact metaphors refer an affective state. The authors propose and measure the concept of kama muta understand experiences often given these labels. Do same evoke emotion across nations languages? They conducted studies in 19 different countries, 5 continents, 15 languages, with a total 3,542 participants. tested construct...
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce increase emotions, we tested the effectiveness reappraisal, an emotion regulation strategy which modifies how one thinks about situation. Participants from 87 countries/regions (N = 21,644) were randomly assigned to two brief reappraisal interventions (reconstrual or repurposing) control conditions (active...
Seeing someone in need may evoke a particular kind of closeness that has been conceptualized as sympathy or empathic concern (which is distinct from other empathy constructs). In contexts, when people suddenly feel close to others, observe others feeling closer each other, this sudden tends an emotion often labeled vernacular English being moved, touched, heart-warming feelings. Recent theory and empirical work indicates emotion; the construct named kama muta. Is for simply expression much...
Feeling moved or touched can be accompanied by tears, goosebumps, and sensations of warmth in the centre chest. The experience has been described frequently, but psychological science knows little about it. We propose that labelling one's feeling as being is a component social-relational emotion we term kama muta (its Sanskrit label). hypothesise it caused appraising an intensification communal sharing relations. Here, test this investigating people's moment-to-moment reports while watching...
The coronavirus outbreak manifested in Norway March 2020. It was met with a combination of mandatory changes (closing public institutions) and recommended (hygiene behavior, physical distancing). has been emphasized that health-protective behavior such as increased hygiene or distancing are able to slow the spread infections flatten curve. Drawing on previous health-psychological studies during various pandemics, we investigated psychological demographic factors predicting adoption...
When do people say that they are moved, and does this experience constitute a unique emotion? We review theory empirical research on being moved across psychology philosophy. examine feeling labels, elicitors, valence, bodily sensations, motivations. find the English lexeme typically (but not always) refers to distinct potent emotion results in social bonding; often includes tears, piloerection, chills, or warm chest; is described as pleasurable, though sometimes mixed emotion. While we...
The emotion commonly labeled in English as being moved or touched is widely experienced but only tacitly defined, and has received little systematic attention. Based on a review of conceptualizations from various disciplines, we hypothesize that events appraised an increase interpersonal closeness, moral acts, when sufficiently intense, elicit positive typically "being moved," characterized by tears, goosebumps, feeling warmth the chest. We predicted this to be true for person participates...
A configuration of infantile attributes including a large head, eyes, with small nose and mouth low on the head comprise visual baby schema or Kindchenschema that English speakers call "cute." In contrast to stimulus gestalt evokes it, evoked emotional response cuteness has been little studied, perhaps because emotion no specific name in English, Norwegian, German. We hypothesize typically kama muta, social-relational other contexts is often labeled as being moved touched, heartwarming,...
Social thermoregulation theory posits that modern human relationships are pleisiomorphically organized around body temperature regulation. In two studies (N = 1755) designed to test the principles from this theory, we used supervised machine learning identify social and non-social factors relate core temperature. This data-driven analysis found complex integration (CSI), defined as number of high-contact roles one engages in, is a critical predictor We further cross-validation approach show...
Abstract Situations involving increased closeness or exceptional kindness are often labeled as moving touching and individuals report bodily symptoms, including tears, goosebumps, warmth in the body. Recently, kama muta framework has been proposed a cross‐cultural conceptualization of these experiences. Prior research on mostly relied subjective reports. Thus, our main goal present project was to examine pattern physiological responses inducing videos compare it patterns for similar, though...
A widespread perspective describes emotions as distinct categories bridged by fuzzy boundaries, indicating that are and dimensional at the same time. Theoretical methodological approaches to this still need further development. We conceptualize overlapping networks of causal relationships between emotion components—networks representing share components with relate each other. To investigate conceptualization, we introduce network analysis research apply it reanalysis a data set on multiple...
Ethnographies, histories, and popular culture from many regions around the world suggest that marked moments of love, affection, solidarity, or identification everywhere evoke same emotion. Based on these observations, we developed kama muta model, in which conceptualize what people English often label being moved as a culturally implemented social-relational emotion responding to regulating communal sharing relations. We hypothesize experiencing observing sudden intensification...
Economic dishonesty is a widespread behavior that has substantial implications on organizations and societies. Recent studies suggest decision making in groups or commitment to other individuals can further increase such contrast individual making. Various interventions have been suggested curb the most classical economic approaches emphasize use of punishment by focusing both risk (“how likely am I get caught?”) severity (“what fine will be imposed?”) punishment, respectively. However,...
Economic dishonesty is a widespread behavior that has substantial implications on organizations and societies. Recent studies suggest decision making in groups or commitment to other individuals can further increase such contrast individual making. Various interventions have been suggested curb the most classical economic approaches emphasize use of punishment by focusing both risk (“how likely am I get caught?”) severity (“what fine will be imposed?”) punishment, respectively. However,...
The experience often described as feeling moved, understood chiefly a social-relational emotion with social bonding functions, has gained significant research interest in recent years. Although listening to music evokes what people describe very little is known about the appraisals or musical features contributing experience. In present study, we investigated experiences of moved response using continuous rating paradigm. A total 415 US participants completed an online experiment where they...
Abstract Social commitment influences our behavior in various ways. Recent studies suggest that social to other individuals or groups can increase dishonest while feeling moral norms might decrease it. Here we show a pre-registered series of 7 investigating the influence on by sampling 7566 participants across three countries (the UK, US, and Mexico) via honesty oaths dishonesty (OR = 0.79 [0.72, 0.88]). To contrary, found no credible evidence increases 1.08 [0.97, 1.20]). Finally, observed...
Many situations elicit multiple emotions at the same time. Therefore, emotion theories should explain when and how co-occur. We compared four parsimonious, formal that could co-occurrence inspired by distinct emotion, network, dimensional approaches to emotions. In three studies (N = 1,038), diverse participants rated intensity of awe kama muta (Study 1; US community sample; conducted in 2020), shame guilt 2; Dutch students; 2006), or fear 3; GB 2022) on multi-componential scales response...